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« We got the polar worms | Main | Breastmilk for Bodybuilding » The Flavor of Fat is "Delicious"You know how sometimes you get that piece of fat on a steak or a porkchop? I loved that. Marrow's prolly pretty fatty. That's also delicious. And duck skin...Yeah, fat's a flavor and that flavor is "mmmmm..." A paper published early this month by Australian researchers in a special edition of the journal Flavour highlights recent breakthroughs in our understanding of fat as a taste. Citing dozens of studies, it describes what is understood about the chemical and electrical pathway between fat in the food we eat and our brains. Join us next time for a discussion on how enjoyable it is to eat gristle. Gotta love that crunch. By min | February 20, 2015, 1:16 PM | Science |